[TigerLikesRooster]

A source close to the regime said North Korea had exploded a neutron bomb to allay doubts about its strength and deter US threats of regime change.

``It's for self-defence: the United States wants regime change,'' the source, who requested anonymity, said in Beijing, noting that Mr Bush had labelled North Korea part of an ``axis of evil'' along with Iran and Iraq in 2002.

There was no independent confirmation that the device was a neutron bomb, designed to release larger amounts of deadly radiation than other nuclear weapons while leaving infrastructure intact.

I am not an expert, but I suspect that N. Koreans are bent on conning their way out of fizzled nuke at the test.

So they blew this one as well as their last long-range missile launch?

[BurbankKarl]

I say we pull out of S Korea and let them deal with it....

[Incorrigible]

 

[bobdsmith]

Yea right. The only thing they have tested is my patience

[SlowBoat407]

A source close to the regime said North Korea had exploded a neutron bomb to allay doubts about its strength and deter US threats of regime change.